Spring Beauty

by Donna Kennedy

Title

Spring Beauty

Artist

Donna Kennedy

Medium

Photograph - Photographs

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Original Fine Art Photography and digital artwork by Donna Kennedy-
Photographed in early March, Reno Nevada
The Mourning Cloak is usually the first flitting butterfly of the season, when it appears it just adds to the beauty of the day.

Mourning cloaks are a fairly large butterfly with a wing span of 6-10 cm. The dark, brown wings with beige colored edges and blue spots make them easy to identify. The underside of the wings are cryptically colored, dark brown with lighter brown edges. The North American common name for this species, mourning cloak, refers to its resemblance to a traditional cloak worn when one was "in mourning".
Adult mourning cloak butterflies emerge from their winter hibernation and seek each other out for mating in the spring. In forested habitats, males will perch in sunny glades and wait for females to flutter by. After a brief aerial courtship the pair will mate. The females lay bunches of eggs (30-50?) together on a single tree or shrub, in a mass that surrounds a twig. The butterflies probably die soon after mating and egg laying, having spent as much as 10 months as adults, a long life for a butterfly.




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